The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>City officials in Los Angeles are considering a plan to repair the city's crumbling sidewalks by forcing homeowners to pay for their repair when the property is sold.</p>

February 22 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Restoration and preservation of historic sites along Route 66 are slow going in Albuquerque.</p>

February 22 - The Albuquerque Tribune

<p>Legislators in Arizona are considering plans to convert some of the state's highways to toll roads in an effort to boost the state's transportation budget.</p>

February 22 - The Arizona Republic

<p>A group of researchers is using mapping and satellite data to help cities quantify their tree canopy cover -- a move that is spurring efforts to increase tree planting in cities across the country.</p>

February 22 - Associated Press

<p>In what may be viewed as a striking fracture to a unified approach to climate change, 18 environmental justice groups have announced their opposition to any type of carbon trading or even carbon offset approach, preferring use of carbon fees instead.</p>

February 22 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>An old Navy base presents the San Francisco suburb of Alameda with a great opportunity. However, a long-standing city policy that prohibits high-density development could quash that opportunity.</p>

February 21 - California Planning & Development Report

<p>The recent phenomenon of housing abandonment in the suburbs is only the beginning: projections now estimate that by 2025 40% of large-lot homes will be standing vacant.</p>

February 21 - Atlantic Monthly

<p>The best way to improve automobiles is to improve cities, according to this article from <em>Business Week</em>.</p>

February 21 - Business Week

<p>In a recently released report, it has been found that Minnesota's transportation funding cannot keep pace with the state's infrastructure needs -- leaving only enough to maintain existing roads, not build any new ones.</p>

February 21 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

<p>The government of British Columbia has announced a carbon tax system for the province -- the first in North America.</p>

February 21 - The Globe and Mail

<p>The use of eminent domain by the Denver-area Regional Transportation District is coming under increasing scrutiny from homeowners and public officials.</p>

February 21 - The Denver Post

<p>As the population booms, the need for housing and development will become even greater over the next 20 years. Many are arguing for a shift away from the cookie-cutter land use patterns of the past.</p>

February 21 - The New York Times

<p>After years of boom-and-bust economic see-sawing, the city of Anchorage, Alaska, is showing signs of steady growth and economic stability.</p>

February 21 - The Seattle Times

<p>City rankings can be double-edged sword.</p>

February 21 - Governing

<p>Subdivisions that were approved under Oregon's Measure 37 in 2004 and then overturned by the passage of Measure 49 last November are moving forward, but only a few houses at a time -- a result Measure 49's proponents say is a victory.</p>

February 21 - The Oregonian

<p>Los Angeles is moving forward with plans to institute one of the country's strictest green building ordinances.</p>

February 20 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>The City Creek Center is touted as the means to revitalize Main Street in Salt Lake City. However, there are many critics of the claim that a skybridge over Main Street is "critical to the success of the project."</p>

February 20 - Utah Stories

<p>Portland's plan for ending homelessness by 2015 has caught the attention of several Canadian municipalities, which are looking to apply the Portland model to their own cities.</p>

February 20 - The Globe & Mail

BLOG POST

<p>How could a new chamber of commerce algorithm drive decisions about employer locations, improve mobility of workers, while reducing pollution accruing from longer daily work trips?  The answer is simple, says the chief economist of the Greater Dallas Chamber, Lyssa Jenkens, “You change the data system to deliver information people never got before.” </p>

February 20 - Anonymous

<p>A regional government report shows a slowdown in traffic growth in Metropolitan St. Louis, but state highway officials still plan to expand highways.</p>

February 20 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch